What can liver cancer patients eat to relieve pain? Precautions for liver cancer treatment in the elderly

Precautions for liver cancer treatment in the elderly

Elderly patients with liver cancer should be treated specially due to their physical characteristics compared to young patients, and attention should be paid during treatment.

Due to the improvement of living standards, the life expectancy of Chinese residents has greatly increased compared with the past, and the aging phenomenon is serious. Therefore, elderly liver cancer patients are more common than in the past. There is a difference in the treatment of elderly liver cancer patients and young people.

Most elderly liver cancer patients have slow tumor development and are easy to control with treatment. In terms of body function, the compensatory functions of the heart, lungs, liver, and kidneys of the elderly are relatively poor. Therefore, when treating elderly liver cancer patients, we must first pay attention to the relatively low compensatory functions of important organs of the body and the poor tolerance to the toxic reactions of various anti-tumor treatments. This requires that the dose and intensity of anti-tumor treatments should be relatively moderate, and overtreatment should be avoided.

Before elderly patients with liver cancer undergo surgical resection, their heart, lung, and kidney functions should be fully evaluated. Surgical resection should be based on local resection. If the tumor is small, minimally invasive treatments that cause less damage to the body and organ functions should be chosen first, such as radiofrequency ablation and intratumoral anhydrous ethanol injection.

When patients with liver cancer that cannot be surgically removed undergo hepatic artery embolization chemotherapy, the dosage of chemotherapy drugs should be appropriately reduced. If repeated treatment is required, the interval between two treatments should be appropriately extended. Immunomodulators should also be appropriately used, or combined with traditional Chinese medicine treatment.

Can liver cancer patients relieve pain through daily diet?

Liver cancer patients may experience pain due to increased tension on the liver capsule caused by tumor enlargement, or ischemia and necrosis in the center of the cancer nodule. In addition, extrahepatic metastasis of liver cancer may cause pain in the tissues or organs involved. Anti-cancer treatment and other reasons may also cause pain in patients. At this time, patients can use some dietary therapy methods to relieve pain, but they should eat or drink after consulting a doctor.

1. Golden Flower Loofah Drink

Ingredients: 10 grams of honeysuckle and 20 grams of old loofah.

Usage: Wash honeysuckle and loofah separately, put in a pot, add 1000 ml of water, boil over high heat for 3 minutes, then boil over low heat for 20 minutes, filter the residue to obtain the juice, and drink it in several times.

Efficacy: Clears away heat, detoxifies, dredges meridians and relieves pain.

2. Leek juice and milk drink

Ingredients: 60g fresh leek, 100ml milk.

Usage: Wash the leek, mash it to extract the juice, mix the leek juice with milk, stew it, and swallow it slowly while it is hot.

Efficacy: Healing injuries and nourishing yin, dispersing blood stasis and relieving pain.

Indications: Liver cancer of the type characterized by heat toxicity damaging the yin, stabbing pain under the hypochondrium, dry mouth and fever.

3. Bird's Nest Tremella Lean Meat Soup

Ingredients: 20 grams of bird's nest, 20 grams of white fungus, 50 grams of lean meat.

Usage: Wash the lean meat, cut into small pieces, put in a pot, add 1000 ml of water, add bird's nest and white fungus, boil over high heat, remove the foam, add rice wine and salt, simmer for 20 minutes, and serve after seasoning.

Efficacy: Nourishes the liver and kidneys.

Indications: Liver cancer, liver and kidney yin deficiency type, stabbing pain in the chest and flanks, weakness in the waist and knees, and emaciation.